Nvidia unveils gaming console

[Da Orky Man]

So, at CES, Nvidia have just announced Project Shield, a possibly-portable gaming console that resembles a 360 controller with a screen glued to its top. Apparently, it will run Androlid primarily, but oiffers one intriging feature; the ability to link via wifi to any PC with a Nvidia card to it to play games installed on the computer with the PC's own CPU/GPU.

Any thoughts?

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20931265

 

[Folji]

When I first stumbled across a trailer for it, I thought it was just gonna be Nvidia showing off what Tegra 4 can do over Tegra 3 up until they suddenly started building a controller around it! The design looks a little too square to me for a comfortable grip, even though it's obviously based right off of a 360 controller's design, but that's hard to say without knowing how big it actually is... and I'm wondering just how the whole wifi linking works. Do you link up to a PC and transfer the game from its screen to the Shield screen, which once again drags up that whole dilemma with "why would you play on the handheld when you can play on the big screen", or do you link up to a PC to treat the thing like an ordinary handheld controller?

Wonder if they're also planning to make it possible to link the controller to the TV, just to throw another leg into the fight for that space!

 

[lechat]

i would say that it outputs the display to the console as a streaming image via wifi
pretty ambitious and the lower resolution of the display means less processing potentially allowing multiple ppl to simultaneously play games from the one PC although i am not sure if there is a market for that

what you could have is the ability for 1 person to browse the internet/do homework/officework while multiple other ppl use excess processing power to stream games but being in a house with 2 PCs, multiple smart TVs, tablets and consoles i honestly don't see the point myself

EDIT: there is also no reason for this to be Nvidia specific. assumming it works with older nvidia cards and the display output will be a driver issue only there is no reason it won't work with other cards and nvidia will be shooting themselves in the foot if support isnt added for other card users who might consider using the console